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zeitgeist.at

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[Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

Hey guys, I have a nvidia card and i'm trying to get GDM / Cinnamon to run but  GDM crashes and I get some weird errors. I think it has something to do with mesa ..

Here is my journalctl and my    Xorg.0.log

the journalctl link is a drop link because it's too large for pastebin - if i should upload it somewhere else please tell me

Last edited by zeitgeist.at (2015-05-09 21:09:22)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

Not an Installation issue, moving to NC...

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zeitgeist.at

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

UPDATE:

I've replaced nvidia-libgl with mesa-libgl and now I can login - but now cinnamon reverts to software rendering. It seems as tho nvidia needs the nvidia-libgl which in return is buggy and doesn't start gdm at all.

[   294.719] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[   294.719] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[   294.719] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[   294.719] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[   294.719] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[   294.719] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
[   294.719] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
[   294.719] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module.  If
[   294.719] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     you continue to encounter problems, Please try
[   294.719] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.
[   294.808] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Found DRM driver nvidia-drm (20150116)
[   294.808] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce GTX 960 (GM206-A) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[   294.808] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 4194304 kBytes
[   294.808] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 84.06.0d.00.a1
[   294.808] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[   294.843] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce GTX 960 at PCI:1:0:0
[   294.843] (--) NVIDIA(0):     CRT-0
[   294.843] (--) NVIDIA(0):     BenQ XL2430T (DFP-0) (boot, connected)
[   294.843] (--) NVIDIA(0):     DFP-1
[   294.843] (--) NVIDIA(0):     DFP-2

EDIT: I've already tried using nouveau - cus graphics performance isn't that important to me on linux, but that didn't work. Apparently it doesnt support the GTX960 yet.

Last edited by zeitgeist.at (2015-05-09 08:24:23)

loqs

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

As a workaround have you tried replacing gdm with lightdm and its gtk3 greeter that combination works for me with the nvidia driver and cinnamon.

mwillems

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

Try editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf and uncommenting the following line:

#WaylandEnable=false

Since 3.16 GDM launches in wayland which is currently incompatible with the proprietary nvidia driver.  It should seamlessly fallback to using X when wayland fails, but some people are reporting that the fallback isn't so seamless. 

If that doesn't work it may be related to some other issues gdm has where it creates multiple gnome-shells on different ttys which seems to cripple hardware accel in certain environments, in which case switch to lightdm as the previous poster mentioned.

zeitgeist.at

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

Sadly is neither Wayland nor gdm - it seems to be nvidia-libgl, maybe in combination with my graphics card nvidia gtx 960 that has a bug. with lightdm i get past the login but then cinnamon crashes. exactly what i've suspected. have to somehow get an older package of nvidia-libgl cus i've reinstalled arch and don't have them anymore

loqs

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … ck_Machine
Also the Xorg.0.log only shows 1 initrd if your system is intel based https://www.archlinux.org/news/changes- … deupdates/

zeitgeist.at

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Re: [Solved] New install - GDM / Cinnamon not working

Thanks for the tip ioqs, i've installed the microcode.img,

regarding libgl  - i've rolled all packages back to the 22nd of April and now everything works just fine. really seems to be a nvidia driver problem.